The Language of Power
core novel 2004 The Steerswoman
Record
| First published | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.38 (1,932 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 389 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780345468352 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Where it sits
- Universe: The Steerswoman
- Series: The Steerswoman core; position 4 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Rosemary Kirstein
Notes
- From the series record (The Steerswoman): A planned 7-book sequence; 4 published so far. Admitted transparently on the same genre-boundary basis as Dragonriders of Pern/The Book of the New Sun: shelved and marketed as fantasy, but the setting gradually reveals a lost-technology, post-catastrophe science-fictional explanation for its apparent magic.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Steerswoman: position 4 of 4: previous The Lost Steersman (2003)
Sources
← The Steerswoman dossier · All universes
One of 3732 works in the Library. Fields without an identified source are omitted, never guessed.